Трилогия

Первая книга грандиозного полотна о Боге, одиночестве и сияющей темноте искусства.

Номинант на Букеровскую премию 2020 года.

Юн Фоссе – именитый норвежский писатель и драматург. Помимо пьес, он пишет стихи и романы, детские книги и эссе. Несколько лет назад Фоссе заявил, что отныне будет заниматься только прозой, и его «Трилогия» сразу получила Премию Совета северных стран.

Художник Асле живет в Дюльгью. В основном он общается только со своим соседом, холостым рыбаком Ослейком. В Бьёргвине живет еще один Асле. Он тоже художник. Оба Асле дружат и в каком-то смысле представляют собой две версии одной и той же жизни.

В первой книге «Септологии» мастер «медленной прозы» Юн Фоссе ретроспективно знакомит нас с детством обоих Асле. «Другое имя» – это история о памяти, фьорде, опасностях и о соседе, сгинувшем в море.

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of one family and their battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss.

In Jon Fosse's vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on.

Aliss at the Fire

Jon Fosse has been called ‘the Beckett of the 21st century’ (Le Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed ‘Waiting for Godot without the gags’. Just as Beckett’s plays — and those of all great playwrights — grew out of their time, and influenced the current styles of drama, and were part of what brought their times forward, so do Fosse’s plays now. Fosse: Plays Six marks the culmination of this Norwegian playwright’s body of work for the stage to be published in the English language. The volume includes the plays Rambuku, Freedom, Over There, These Eyes, Girl in Yellow Raincoat, Christmas Tree Song and Sea.

Rambuku: Two people. One finds it difficult to speak. The other attempts to understand. But what is Rambuku? Or who is Rambuku? Freedom: There is a sense of otherness in Fosse’s work that challenges our notions of a concept such as ‘freedom’. This play questions if freedom, as we often understand it, is perhaps a prison. Over There: A woman follows a man to his death. But do they see the same images on the way to the top of the mountain? These Eyes: A snapshot of the dreamlike state of life. The characters exist in an in-between space which becomes their reality. Girl in Yellow Raincoat: An examination of our collective weakness, and the fragility of children. It asks questions about notions surrounding fear. Christmas Tree Song: A man celebrates Christmas alone (and reflects in a somewhat ironic way) on his life as he attempts to put up a Christmas tree. Sea: A group of people gathered in a kind of limbo, on a ship, disappearing into something unknown.